Patents by Inventor Tiberio Grasso

Tiberio Grasso has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10611447
    Abstract: An autonomous underwater system for environmental monitoring including a multidisciplinary underwater station including onboard instrumentation, at least one autonomous modular underwater vehicle movable inside an area to be monitored along an assigned route, and at least one external instrumental modulus which can be connected the vehicle, wherein the multidisciplinary underwater station includes a docking area, an interface system, an equipping system for supplying the vehicle with instrumental moduli, and a management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: ENI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Francesco Gasparoni, Mauro Favaretto, Tiberio Grasso
  • Publication number: 20170240258
    Abstract: An autonomous underwater system for environmental monitoring including a multidisciplinary underwater station including onboard instrumentation, at least one autonomous modular underwater vehicle movable inside an area to be monitored along an assigned route, and at least one external instrumental modulus which can he connected the vehicle, wherein the multidisciplinary underwater station includes a docking area, an interface system, an equipping system for supplying the vehicle with instrumental moduli, and a management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: ENI S.p.A
    Inventors: Francesco GASPARONI, Mauro FAVARETTO, Tiberio GRASSO
  • Patent number: 9718524
    Abstract: An autonomous underwater system for environmental monitoring including a multidisciplinary underwater station including onboard instrumentation, at least one autonomous modular underwater vehicle movable inside an area to be monitored along an assigned route, and at least one external instrumental modulus which can be connected to the vehicle, wherein the multidisciplinary underwater station includes a docking area, an interface system, an equipping system for supplying the vehicle with instrumental moduli, and a management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: ENI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Francesco Gasparoni, Mauro Favaretto, Tiberio Grasso
  • Publication number: 20140224167
    Abstract: An autonomous underwater system for environmental monitoring including a multidisciplinary underwater station including onboard instrumentation, at least one autonomous modular underwater vehicle movable inside an area to be monitored along an assigned route, and at least one external instrumental modulus which can be connected to the vehicle, wherein the multidisciplinary underwater station includes a docking area, an interface system, an equipping system for supplying the vehicle with instrumental moduli, and a management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: ENI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Francesco Gasparoni, Mauro Favaretto, Tiberio Grasso
  • Patent number: 8418765
    Abstract: A combined piloting method of remote operated underwater vehicles includes: connecting, to a vertical profile, a constraint device including at least two arms arranged at a reciprocal fixed angular position, each of the at least two docking arms including at a first end a device for the hooking of a remote operated underwater vehicle, the at least two docking arms being constrained at one of their second ends to a device for the sliding and rotating hooking to the vertical profile; connecting at least two remote operated vehicles to the constraint device; detecting the position of the overall structure consisting of the constraint device and remote operated vehicles; detecting the orientation of each of the remote operated vehicles; receiving data relating to the position and orientation to be reached; determining the power required by each remote operated vehicle; and transmitting related commands to each vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: ENI S.p.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Ferrara, Michele Filippini, Roberto Finotello, Tiberio Grasso
  • Publication number: 20110093138
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a combined piloting method of remote operated underwater vehicles comprising the phases which consist in connecting, to a vertical profile (21), a constraint device (20) comprising at least two arms (25) arranged at a reciprocal fixed angular position, each of the at least two docking arms (25) comprising at a first end (25a) means (29) for the hooking of a remote operated underwater vehicle (14), the at least two docking arms (25) being constrained at one of their second ends (25b) to means (26) for the sliding and rotating hooking to said vertical profile (21); connecting at least two remote operated vehicles (14) to the constraint device (20); detecting the position of the overall structure consisting of the constraint device (20) and remote operated vehicles (14); detecting the orientation of each of the remote operated vehicles (14); receiving data relating to the position and orientation to be reached; determining the power required by each remote operated vehicle (14) a
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Applicant: ENI S.P.A.
    Inventors: Paolo Ferrara, Michele Filippini, Roberto Finotello, Tiberio Grasso